In RHEL6 oprofile is showing 'Option "--setup" not valid with "--save"' error.

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Issue

  • In RHEL6 oprofile is showing 'Option "--setup" not valid with "--save"' error, while using --session-dir with --dump and --save options.
  • Issue is not in RHEL5.

# opcontrol --start --session-dir=/local/tmp/root.lyIVNu --vmlinux=/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.18.1.el6.x86_64/vmlinux --separate=lib  --event=CPU_CLK_UNHALTED:6000::0:1
Profiler running.
]# opcontrol --stop
Stopping profiling.
# opcontrol --session-dir=/local/tmp/root.lyIVNu --dump
Option "--setup" not valid with "--dump".
#  opcontrol --session-dir=/local/tmp/root.lyIVNu --save=CPU_CLK_UNHALTED
Option "--setup" not valid with "--save".

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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